Anesthesia

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has announced its support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to reject the application of Johnson & Johnson's SEDASYS Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation System, according to an ASA news release.

Here are the anesthesia claims modifiers and guidance for when to report them, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service's Medicare Claims Processing Manual.

Here are the top five payors by CMS region and volume for anesthesiology, according to GENASCIS's "Did You Know" benchmarking data. Note: Anesthesiology data not available for all CMS regions. Data may not be available for all states.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected a computer-assisted anesthesia system that uses propofol manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, after an advisory panel recommended its approval last May, according to an Associated Press report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Here are four statistics about pain management in ASCs, according to SDI Health. 1. Pain management was among the top five surgical specialties found in singe-specialty ASCs, representing 5 percent of the total single-specialty ASC pool. Pain management followed gastroenterology…

Q: What is the current national perspective on manipulation under anesthesia and how does it pertain to ASCs?Robert Goldstein, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer, Somnia Anesthesia Services: Manipulation under anesthesia remains a very controversial procedure, with variable…

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed into law the "Oklahoma Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act," which prohibits non-MD or DO providers from offering or performing interventional pain management, according to a news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Somnia Anesthesia Services has appointed Hugh Morgan to the newly created position of Quality Assurance Officer, under which Mr. Morgan will direct Somnia's Clinical Quality Excellence Program and assume oversight of clinical quality for the anesthesia practices the company manages…

Cleveland Medical Devices has finalized an agreement to license its anesthesia monitoring — its NeuroSense line — and seizure detection technologies through Cleveland Heights, Ohio-based NeuroWave Systems, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.

According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, AAs are non-physician anesthetists and are trained extensively in the delivery of safe and high quality anesthesia care and advanced patient monitoring techniques under the direction of a licensed anesthesiologist. Here are four…