A bag containing surgery schedules with patient information was reportedly stolen from an Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City (Kan.) employee's car Dec. 14, 2018, according to statement on the practice's website.

A former physician at Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel West accessed high doses of powerful pain medications by overriding warnings and pharmacist pre-approvals in dozens of cases, The Columbus Dispatch reports.

After disbanding in late 2018, Olean, N.Y.-based Southern Tier Anesthesiologists sold its property to new owners who plan to rent it out on Airbnb, the Olean Times Herald reports.

Anesthesiologist Erin Grund, MD, joined Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minn., the Duluth News Tribune reports.

Jackson, Mich.-based MiraMed Global Services raised more than $75,000 through its Circle of Warmth campaign in collaboration with the nonprofit organization The Empowerment Plan.

New York City-based NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital’s Associate Program Director of The Center for Quality and Patient Safety Lorraine Hutzler shared the details behind the hospital's opioid prescribing program and how it cut prescribing drastically.

ASCs have been slower to implement EMRs than their hospital counterparts, but Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira predicts change is inevitable.

In recent weeks, an anesthesia organization shut down and pain groups announced transactions.

The five U.S. states paying anesthesiologists the most offer hourly wages of at least $100 and annual salaries of $208,000 or more, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data available.

An estimated 30,590 anesthesiologists are employed in the U.S., according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data available.

A bad reputation can ruin the work of great physicians, according to Vincent Galan, MD, anesthesiologist and medical director of Stockbridge, Ga.-based Center for Pain and Spine.

Physicians at Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem leveraged data from their anesthesia information management system to drive improvements in documentation, clinical decision-making, financial performance, clinician satisfaction and more, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira. 

Oral surgeon Michael Lee Hasson, DDS, was arrested Jan. 31 after being accused of sexually abusing at least four female patients, according to the Wilmington (N.C.) Police Department.

The Academy of Integrative Pain Management will cease operations, citing financial problems and other factors, Pain News Network reports.

Former Brentwood, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists CEO John Davis and CCC Medical executive Brenda Montgomery allegedly exchanged emails alluding to criminal behavior, according to federal transcripts examined by The Tennessean. 

Former anesthesiologist Rene Boucher, DO, who pleaded guilty to attacking his neighbor, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was ordered to pay more than $580,000 in damages and medical expenses, CBS News reports.

Phoenix-based Anesthesia Resources joined Richardson, Texas-based National Partners in Healthcare.

Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Hospital placed 23 employees on administrative leave after 34 patients reportedly received excessive doses of pain medication, CNN reports.

Pain specialists avoid using certain pain medications to prevent patients from becoming addicted or experiencing serious side effects, Reader's Digest reports.

When a patient at an ASC on Aurora-based University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus became verbally abusing and threatening, staff worked quickly to de-escalate the situation, Anesthesia Experts reports.