The right anesthesia group can keep your surgeons happy and your ASC running efficiently, while the wrong group can derail your schedule and endanger patient safety. Beverly Kirchner, owner and CEO of ...

When an ASC enters into a contract with an anesthesia group, both sides should have a firm understanding of what each party expects from the partnership. Anesthesia Business Consultants CEO and ...

A hospital’s anesthesia department plays a key role in many areas of the facility’s operations including operating room efficiency (on-time starts, recovery time, etc.), patient safety and clinical ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have come under increased scrutiny in the past year, since the announcement of an outbreak of hepatitis C at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. The scrutiny has led to ...

It is likely only a matter of time until your hospital is asked to subsidize its anesthesia provider, if it hasn’t already faced this request. Anesthesia groups are more regularly asking hospitals for ...

Atrium Health's contract with a new provider of anesthesiology services is now the subject of a lawsuit. The group of anesthesiologists that lost its contract to work at Atrium Health facilities is ...

An eleventh-hour deal between Tennessee’s largest health insurance company and the biggest anesthesiologist group in the state will end a corporate tug of war that nearly led to patients facing ...

Financial problems at Anesco, an anesthesia group contracted for decades to provide services at all Broward Health hospitals, has led to employees leaving or going unpaid and a notice of termination ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- American Anesthesiology, a subsidiary of MEDNAX, Inc., (NYSE:MD) today announced the acquisition of Pinnacle Anesthesia, P.L., a physician group practice that ...

Some elective surgeries at Broward Health’s four hospitals were postponed this week as unpaid anesthesiologists walked off the job and financial problems deepened for Anesco, the systemwide anesthesia ...

Trinity Health sued a metro Detroit anesthesiology group for allegedly compromising operations at a handful of its hospitals amid rate disputes with several insurers. The lawsuit filed in a Michigan ...