Anesthesia

Legislation has been introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives that would prevent insurers in the state from limiting coverage for anesthesia, according to a Jan. 17 report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe, the private equity firm backing U.S. Anesthesia Partners.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Heersink School of Medicine's department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine has tapped Ryan Densmore, MD, as its director of non-operating room anesthesia. 

U.S. Anesthesia Partners Holdings and a Texas affiliate have secured a pretrial victory in a discrimination lawsuit brought by terminated employee David Axmann, MD, according to a Jan. 15 report from Bloomberg Law.

Here are five stats and figures to know about compensation for anesthesiologists:

Currently, certified registered nurse anesthetists provide a large percent of anesthesia services nationwide annually, especially in rural areas. 

UC Davis (Calif.) is slated to launch a nurse anesthesiology program, poising it to become the first school in the University of California system to have one. 

Here are five major anesthesia groups to watch in 2025: 

The exclusive anesthesia services provider for Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System, Anesthesiology Consultants Exchange, also of Chattanooga, has alleged that its anesthesiologists repeatedly raised concerns that Erlanger surgeons were not complying with the hospital's overlapping surgery policy, according to a…

The highest-paid anesthesiologist in Tampa, Fla., earns $716,600 per year, according to Medscape's salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $339,470 anesthesiologists make according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.