Bob Gauvin, CRNA, is president and owner of Dartmouth, Mass.-based Anesthesia PROfessionals, which provides practice management and anesthesia staffing services to facilities including surgery centers, ophthalmic centers and endoscopy centers.

Wisconsin awarded $22.5 million to the family of an infant whose likely permanent brain damage may have resulted from surgical anesthesia at UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wis., according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists are in demand across the U.S.

Healthcare facilities can help prevent drug diversion by establishing processes for managing and auditing narcotic inventories, according to Daryl Schiller, PharmD, pharmacy services director at Montefiore Nyack (N.Y.) Hospital.

The federal government hopes to put an end to the practice of information blocking by financially penalizing developers and removing incentives for providers, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Federal agents raided Ava Pain Management in Tempe, Ariz., and arrested two employees April 18, according to ABC 15 Arizona.

A longtime Rochester, N.Y.-based Cornerstone Eye Associates employee allegedly used her position as the Lasik refraction surgery coordinator to illegally prescribe 5,000-plus opioids, local ABC News affiliate 13WHAM reports.

Louisiana neurologist Anil Prasad, MD, was charged with conspiring to dispense controlled substances and commit healthcare fraud, according to the Department of Justice.

Physicians in Kentucky are among 53 medical professionals in six states facing charges related to a widespread opioid crackdown, according to the Department of Justice.

Five medical professionals in Kentucky's Eastern District were charged in connection to schemes involving healthcare fraud and the illegal distribution of controlled substances, according to the Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice charged 32 people in Tennessee, including Jeffrey Young, a nurse practitioner known as the "Rock Doc," as part of a massive crackdown on illegal prescribing practices, The Tennessean reports.

Anesthesia clinicians should weigh the pros and cons before using medical scribes to alleviate administrative burden, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Most anesthesiologists who would choose to go into medicine again would also select the same specialty, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2019."

Lawrenceburg, Ind.-based Highpoint Health selected Seven Hills Anesthesia as its surgical sedation services provider.

Out of 11 medical specialties on Business Insider's list of the highest-paid physicians, anesthesiologists earn the most.

To ensure proper payments for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, CMS uses a risk adjustment model based on hierarchical condition categories, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Former Gallatin, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists CEO John Davis was found guilty of participating in a $4 million illegal kickback scheme, according to the Department of Justice.

The Arkansas House rejected a bill April 2 that would have expanded the scope of practice for certified registered nurse anesthetists, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Therapix Healthcare Resources is shutting down one of the eight pain clinics it acquired from Middle, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists, an organization that closed in July 2018 with little notice, according to the Tennessean, part of the USA Today network.

Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia, an anesthesia and perioperative management company, has made several acquisitions since Jan. 1.