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Final 2023 Medicare Physician Payment Rule Negatively Impacts Anesthesia Groups, Harms Patient Access to Surgical Care

 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls on Congress to block a nearly 4.5% Medicare payment cut to anesthesiologists and other physicians included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule released this week. These significant cuts will compound the financial strain anesthesia groups are already […]

Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (AIRS) Case 2022-10: We’re Not Baking Cookies Here

ASA Monitor October 2022, Vol. 86, 14–16. VIEW LARGEDOWNLOAD SLIDE A 14-year-old otherwise healthy female underwent a posterior spinal fusion for scoliosis. A TIVA anesthetic was used to accommodate neuromonitoring. Our organization uses a strict protocol for spinal fusions that specifies a single injection of intrathecal morphine prior to incision, infusions of ketamine and tranexamic acid, […]

Anesthesiologists Drive Expanded Use of ECMO

Author: Kelly Wolfgang ASA Monitor October 2022, Vol. 86, 13. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, was initially developed as an extension of cardiopulmonary bypass to replace the function of the heart and lungs by pumping and oxygenating a patient’s blood outside the body. The procedure, once only able to be used for hours or days at […]

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Cardiovascular-related deaths in the US fall, but disparities remain

Source: asamonitor.pub/3AmcdYd A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported study found that cardiovascular-related deaths have declined over the past two decades, but disparities remain. Inequities are mostly driven by differences in race and ethnicity, geographic location, and access to care, among other factors. The findings, recently published in Circulation (Circulation July 2022), reviewed three papers. Each paper – published by […]