Washington state has the highest hourly mean wage for anesthesiologists in the U.S., while Minnesota leads when wages are adjusted for cost of living, according to May 2025 data released May 18 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Below are…
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ASCs are taking on more cases, expanding service lines and pushing into higher-acuity procedures, but many are hemorrhaging money on the one department that touches every single case on the schedule. The problem, according to anesthesia leaders, is operational. Centers…
Cecil Borel III, MD, a professor emeritus at Duke Anesthesiology and pioneer in neurocritical care, has died at age 75. At Duke, Dr. Borel established a neuroanesthesiology program and a neurosurgical ICU. When neuroanesthesia became an independent division in 1997,…
A New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine study published May 11 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found anesthesia may resemble both sleep and coma states in the brain, challenging the long-held belief that patients under anesthesia…
Michael Ralls, a CRNA at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City, Okla., was fired and charged with three counts of sexual battery after multiple employees and a high school intern accused him of inappropriate conduct, according to a…
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The operating room minute is often referred to as the most expensive unit in healthcare, as the cost of anesthesia, disposables and other equipment and labor continue to eat away at ASCs’ margins. OR efficiency has since taken center stage…
Anesthesia has become one of the fastest-growing financial liabilities for ASCs amid what leaders call a structural mismatch between how ASCs operate and how anesthesia gets paid. The costliest anesthesia issue is “misalignment between operational efficiency and the anesthesia delivery…
Sunrise, Fla.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia entered into a new partnership with Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital. The organization will begin providing anesthesia services to the acute care facility starting in September, according to a May 13 news release from…
Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia has announced three new ASC partnerships in Virginia, according to a May 12 news release. The new partnerships include Careplex Orthopaedic ASC in Hampton Roads, MedRVA Healthcare Stony Point and West Creek Surgery Centers in Richmond…
The American Medical Association, 50 state medical societies and 46 healthcare organizations urged congressional leaders to support bipartisan legislation aimed at strengthening enforcement of the No Surprises Act, according to a letter released May 11. The legislation — H.R. 4710/S.…