SUMMARY The Drug Enforcement Agency and other agencies are scrutinizing hospitals and healthcare facilities more closely for failure to implement and maintain appropriate drug diversion prevention policies, procedures and programs, and they are holding organizations as well as individuals responsible. As professionals who manage and administer a la...

Maurice Madore, MBA, CPC Chief Client Officer, Anesthesia Business Consultants, Jackson, MIWhen the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, it set into motion a series of intended and unintended actions and consequences that, after several years, can now be reviewed and interpreted. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

SUMMARY Downward pressure on payment to endoscopists based on the 2017 Physician Fee Schedule final rule continues to raise questions about the viability of the symbiotic relationship between anesthesia providers and endoscopists. At the same time, though colonoscopy is still considered the gold standard, less invasive techniques for colorectal can...

Mark F. Weiss, JD The Mark F. Weiss Law Firm, Dallas, TX, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CAQuick! Who's the president of Switzerland?Anesthesia group leaders seeking to create a larger structure out of existing groups, from an alliance among local groups, to business models for exclusive contracting, to the creation of a true regional or national p...

SUMMARY Anesthesiologists are exploring new opportunities to demonstrate value to their hospitals, both inside and outside of the operating room. Leadership of the intensive care unit provides an option that some practices might want to consider. Critical care medicine is, in many ways, a logical extension of anesthesia practice and can also provid...