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Author: Claire Wallace Becker’s ASC Review Former Los Angeles-based anesthesiologist Stephen Kyo-Sung Kim, MD, was ordered to be released Dec. 4 following two years in prison in connection with a 2021 guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a fellow physician during surgery, according to a Dec. 4 report from MyNewsLA. Dr. Kim admitted […]
Read MoreAuthors: Vincent Bargnes, III, MD et al ASA Monitor December 2023, Vol. 87, 34–35. Figure 1: Series of events associated with the DEI component of a preoperative clinic rotation. Anesthesiology is faced with disparities between patient populations across the spectrum of surgical services, including orthopedics, cardiothoracic, and obstetrics, that plague the United States health care system […]
Read MoreAuthor: Patsy Newitt Becker’s ASC Review CMS finalized a 3.1% payment rate for ASCs in its 2024 final rule, an increase of .3% from the original rule. Bill Prentice, CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, and Kara Newbury, the organization’s director of government affairs and regulatory counsel, laid out what this means for ASCs in an […]
Read MoreaUTHORS: Jie Tian, MD, PhD; Zhaolan Hu, MD, PhD ASA Monitor December 2023, Vol. 87, The 28th annual meeting of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology (CSA) took place from September 21-24, 2023, in the picturesque city of Changsha, China. During this event, over 10,000 attendees from 20 countries and regions engaged in workshops, seminars, and presentations covering […]
Read MoreAuthors: Chris D. Glover, MD, MBA, FASA et al ASA Monitor December 2023, Vol. 87, 1–7. The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic remains seared into the fabric of our society, with over 1 million lives lost, significant economic impacts, and a health care workforce that remains frustrated and in critically short supply. Early on, federal legislation […]
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