Anesthesia

To ensure proper payments for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, CMS uses a risk adjustment model based on hierarchical condition categories, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Former Gallatin, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists CEO John Davis was found guilty of participating in a $4 million illegal kickback scheme, according to the Department of Justice.

The Arkansas House rejected a bill April 2 that would have expanded the scope of practice for certified registered nurse anesthetists, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Therapix Healthcare Resources is shutting down one of the eight pain clinics it acquired from Middle, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists, an organization that closed in July 2018 with little notice, according to the Tennessean, part of the USA…

Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia, an anesthesia and perioperative management company, has made several acquisitions since Jan. 1.

The Medicare for All Act has the potential to affect anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Anesthesiology accounts for the largest portion of all out-of-network claims associated with an in-network admission, according to a report from the Health Care Cost Institute.

A Florida House subcommittee approved a bill that would allow advanced practice registered nurses to practice without physician supervision, FLAPOL reports.

Quality improvement is an integral part of anesthesia practice success, according to Spiro G. Spanakis, DO, of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents visited four pain clinics associated with Sujata Gutti, MD, and Sai Gutti, MD, March 25, according to WYMT.