Anesthesia

While anesthesia groups can feel hopeful about some opioid-related legislation in the works, they face mounting barriers to getting paid fairly, according to Garry Brydges, PhD, DNP, CRNA, president of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.

Pain management company PainMD lost access to numerous patient medical records after shuttering several clinics in May, according to the Tennessean, part of the USA Today network.

Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis appointed Roland Flores, MD, to serve on the Colorado Medical Board, according to CU Anschutz Today.

Anesthesia practices with 100 or more providers became far more common after the turn of the century, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Clearway Pain Solutions Institute was named a top provider in two categories by VIP Pensacola Magazine.

Under a new agreement, North American Partners in Anesthesia will cover the full spectrum of acute and elective procedures at St. Mary's General Hospital in Passaic, N.J.

American Pain Management owner Scott Novick was sentenced to more than six years in prison — plus three years of supervised release — for participating in a $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Midland (Texas) Health's Midland Memorial Hospital successfully adopted a preoperative optimization and opioid-reduction program, the New Haven Register reports.

Allied Anesthesia expanded its clinical team, completed about 111,000 cases and formed five new surgery center partnerships in 2018.

Eric W. Callan, CRNA, is CEO of LifeLinc, a company that provides anesthesia management services for practices in 16 states. Mr. Callan told Becker's ASC Review about evolutions and opportunities in the anesthesia space.