SUMMARY The public health impact of the environmental pollution created by the healthcare sector is commensurate with the scale of hospital deaths due to preventable medical errors, recent research shows. The operating room is an environmental hot spot and major generator of waste, and the greenhouse warming potential of inhaled anesthetics is...

Brianna Barker Caza, PhD Associate Professor, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada M. Teresa Cardador, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL It is becoming all too common for physicians to report feeling overwhelmed by...

SUMMARY This eAlert offers news briefs of interest to anesthesia practices on: the Republicans' latest attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; the new Medicare ID number initiative and what practices should be doing now to prepare; a primer on additional documentation requests (ADRs) and why a timely response is essential; and c...

Very few private anesthesia practices provide services in their hospitals' intensive care units (ICUs). The lack of enthusiasm for staffing the ICU relates directly to a perception that ICU coverage is not as profitable as operating room (OR) coverage. The entire Anesthesia Business Consultants client database only yields a few examples of private ...

SUMMARY The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued several waivers and modifications of certain federal healthcare program requirements to enable beneficiaries impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey to receive emergency and other care and to allow providers to be reimbursed for their services. It behooves all anesthesia ca...