Anesthesia

New in 2015 was the requirement to report at least one cross cutting (CC) measure if a provider sees one patient in a face-to-face encounter during the reporting period.

Odessa, Texas-based Ector County Hospital District board of directors has approved a service line management anesthesia agreement with Alpharetta, Ga.-based Premier Anesthesia, according to an OA Online report.

The North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists named Tim Gundlach, MD, president-elect.

Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA, an anesthesiologist, has been appointed to the team that will lay the groundwork for President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.

SPR Therapeutics received a $1.45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a fully-implantable peripheral nerve stimulation system.

New legislation is being considered in California that would allow anesthesiologist assistants to work in the state, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.

Marc Allan Feldman, MD, an anesthesiologist at Cleveland Clinic, has filed a petition to run for President of the United States with the Federal Elections Commission, according to a Cleveland Jewish News report.

Otonomy named Dean Hakanson, MD, CMO.

Somnia Anesthesia is calling for nominations for its third annual Anesthesiologist of the Year award.

In the final Physician Fee Schedule rule for 2015, CMS applied the cost-sharing waiver to anesthesia for screening colonoscopies; however, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopies are still subject to co-payments and deductibles, according to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post.