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.
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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.
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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.
Here are 13 anesthesia group partnerships and acquisitions that have been announced so far this year:
The American Medical Association's guidelines now allow anesthesia groups to bill for ultrasound guidance with arterial lines, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.
An indictment in an alleged pill mill operation was upheld despite the DEA's destruction of nearly 2,000 patient files that could have been used as evidence, according to knox news, part of the USA Today network.