Anesthesia

Patients undergoing non-emergency surgeries — including births — may see out-of-pocket costs skyrocket due to a standoff between BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and Nashville, Tenn.-based Anesthesia Medical Group, The Tennessean reports.

A panel of experts from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University created the nation's first operation-specific opioid prescribing guidelines, which were published Aug. 14 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

The FDA recalled SpaceLabs Healthcare's Arkon anesthesia delivery system for going into a "failed state."

Anesthesiologist and professor Kevin Malott, MD, 49, died July 26, following a brief illness.

Topeka, Kan.-based Stormont Vail Pain Management merged its three practices into a single Topeka-based space, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.

Jay Joshi, MD, is suing a physician by the same name who pled guilty July 3 to overprescribing painkillers to patients.

Anesthesia staffing and management company Sunbelt Anesthesia Services implemented Plexus Technology Group's anesthesia EMR software in multiple Jacksonville, Fla.-area ASCs.

B&B Programs named the American Society of Anesthesiologists among the 2018 Chicago Best and Brightest Companies to Work For.

Brian Chesebro, MD, an anesthesiologist and physician at Providence Portland (Ore.) Medical Center, shared research with Missoula Anesthesiology on the effect costly anesthesia gases can have on the environment, the Missoula Current reported.

CMS' 2019 proposed rule for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System covers several topics relevant to anesthesia providers, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.