Anesthesia

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative. On August 23, 2011, CMS invited providers to apply to help test and develop four different models of bundling payments. Letters of intent…

In mid-July, CMS issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, seeking comment on a rule that addresses changes to the 2012 CMS Physician Fee Schedule.

The Georgia Composite Medical Board has suspended the license of a physician assistant who administered a lethal dose of anesthesia to a five-year-old girl in June, according to a WSBTV report.

Here are 10 recent news stories impacting the anesthesia community.

Mike Roizen, MD, chair of the SmartTots executive board, recently traveled to India to present on pediatric anesthesia neurotoxicity, according to a MarketWatch report.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official announced on Tuesday that CMS is developing a proposed rule to remove "obsolete or burdensome requirements" from the agency's regulatory structure, a move that could impact anesthesiology, according to an ASA…

A psychotherapeutic method known as BATHE (Background, Affect, Trouble, Handling and Empathy) could improve patient satisfaction in the pre-operative evaluation by anesthesiologists, according to a study published in the Aug. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Use of spinal anesthesia during total hip replacement could affect leg length, according to an Ortho Supersite report.

The Ohio Supreme Court recently set two new execution dates, despite uncertainties about how the executions will be performed as the state suffers from drug shortages, according to a Mansfield News Journal report.

Generic drug manufacturer Teva ceased propofol production three weeks after a jury awarded $500 million to a patient who contracted hepatitis C from a procedure in which he received the anesthetic, according to a Fierce Pharma Manufacturing report.