A recent Associated Press report saying the FDA received more than 80,000 injury reports linked to spinal cord stimulators in the past decade discounts significant information, Andrew Thymius, DO, told WVA.

MiraMed Global Services subsidiary Plexus Technology Group will be exhibiting at the ASHP Midyear 2018 Clinical Meeting & Exhibition, Dec. 2-6 in Anaheim, Calif.

Neil Ellis, MD, is taking his talent to Tampa, Fla., and joining Physicians Partners of America's practice there.

ASC owners and administrators frequently utilize simple heuristics when selecting anesthesia providers, often limiting selection criteria to coverage availability, cost and surgeon relationships.

A coalition of healthcare groups including the American Society of Anesthesiologists offered 19 recommendations for addressing critical medication shortages.

Keith Lewis, MD, became New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's anesthesiology and perioperative medicine department chair in September.

Anesthesiologists can either become leaders in social media or get left behind, anesthesiologist Marjorie Stiegler, MD, said during a presentation at Anesthesiology 2018, Oct. 13-17 in San Francisco.

MiraMed Global Services and its subsidiary Anesthesia Business Consultants launched the MiraMed Circle of Warmth Campaign through a partnership with a Detroit-based nonprofit organization.

Spinal-cord stimulators accounted for the third-highest number of medical device injury reports to the Food and Drug Administration since 2008, an Associated Press investigation found.

The FDA's Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, approved in September, includes several measures to train health professionals on the use of opioid medications and their risks. The FDA requires provider training for all opioid analgesics used in outpatient settings, according to the American Pharmacist Association.

Revelstoke Capital Partners portfolio company Crossroads Holding acquired Knoxville, Tenn.-based EHC Medical Offices.

CMS's 2019 Physician Fee Schedule final rule details how anesthesia practices will be paid in 2019 and how their participation in the Quality Payment Program could affect what they're paid in 2021, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.

Erin Maddy, MD, joined Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minn.

Anesthesiologists make the highest annual mean wage in the Columbus, Ohio, metro area, according to Columbus Business First.

A federal grand jury delivered a new indictment against 11 former pain management clinic employees accused of participating in a multiclinic pill mill operation, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports.

Ryan Roberts, MD, joined Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains, Mo., Ozark Radio News reports.

Willow Risk Advisors partnered with the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians to launch a medical malpractice insurance program for the society's members.

Two Albuquerque, N.M.-based pain management clinics merged to form one of the state's largest pain management groups, Albuquerque Business First reports. 

Certified registered nurse anesthetists will play a crucial role in tackling the biggest issues facing anesthesia in 2019, according to American Association of Nurse Anesthetists President Garry Brydges, DNP, CRNA.

Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services acquired Metamorphosis, an opioid treatment program based in Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah.