Anesthesia

Castle Connolly recently recognized Semih Gungor, MD, as a top doctor in the New York, N.Y., region.

Anesthesia Business Consultants is encouraging anesthesiologists to review Avoiding Medicare Fraud & Abuse: A Roadmap for Physicians, a 20-page booklet recently released by CMS.

The Knoxville, Tenn.-based physician services organization TeamHealth recently acquired Anesthesia Associates of Cincinnati.

The Morrisville, N.C.-based medical device company Anutra Medical will launch its national sales effort with its new Nashville, Tenn.-based distribution partner NDC this September.

A cataract eye surgery center in Massachusetts is the subject of controversy after five patients receiving cataract surgery in May 2014 went blind from the procedure, the Boston Globe reports. 

MEDNAX has acquired the Reno, Nev.-based anesthesiology practice Associated Anesthesiologists, according to Yahoo! Finance.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved KOVANAZE, the first nasal-administered dental anesthetic.

A new sensor being developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston aims to assist anesthesiologists performing epidurals and other medical procedures.

Medaxion, a developer of mobile-based anesthesia-focused electronic health record systems, raised $950,000 in funding, according to a MobiHealthNews report.

Alpharetta, Ga.-based Sweet Dreams Nurse Anesthesia reached a more than $1 million settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and the Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.