Author: Francesca Mathewes

As the anesthesia staffing crisis persists across healthcare settings, ASC and perioperative leaders are putting more emphasis on investing in members of the anesthesia care team to maintain a high standard of care quality and keep facilities running smoothly. Aaron…

Operating room efficiency is an essential component of anesthesia service management as staffing shortages, operational costs and a high demand for surgical procedures put significant pressure on physicians and administrators.  Two physicians recently joined Becker’s to discuss the ways they…

Kenneth Haselby, MD, an anesthesiologist in Battle Ground, Ind., has died at age 84, according to an obituary published by Legacy.com. Dr. Haselby earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University in 1964. He went…

Amid mounting reimbursement pressures and rising operational costs, ASC leaders are looking to models for managing anesthesia costs and staffing that will sustain them into the future.  Peter Bravos, MD, chief medical officer of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health’s surgery center…

A man has been accused of threatening to shoot an ASC in Nashville, Tenn., causing the center to close temporarily, WSMV 4 reported Sept. 18.  Police told the publication that Emil Jawad, a 37-year-old man, called the Tristar Cardiovascular Surgery…

The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology has filed an appeal in a ruling that dismissed claims of payers unlawfully paying CRNAs less than physician anesthesiologists for providing the same services. The initial complaint was filed against HHS in September 2024,…

Private equity’s presence in anesthesia has been the subject of several recent lawsuits and studies on healthcare costs as the specialty becomes increasingly consolidated.  Here are eight notes private equity group’s recent moves in anesthesia: 1. A study published in…

In-house CT-scanners are hard to come by in outpatient cardiology offices, despite their known effectiveness and accuracy in identifying early stages of heart disease.  A recent wave of cardiologists are looking to change that. Alberto Morales, MD, founder of South…

There have been several moves by state governments in the last year to restrict noncompete agreements in physicians’ employment contracts, according to a Sept. 16 report by the American Medical Association. This legislative trend runs parallel to the decline of…

A bill that would strengthen California’s ban on the corporate practice of medicine and address the growing influence of private equity in healthcare has passed out of the state’s legislature and is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for final…