The use of monitored anesthesia care in routine gastrointestinal endoscopy increased over time within the Veterans Health Administration, but remains low compared with use outside the VHA, according ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monitored anesthesia care increased total facility costs by about $176 vs. a wide-awake technique. Personnel and ...

A study in JAMA Neurology examined monitored anesthesia care’s efficacy and effectiveness, Neurology Advisor reports. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Ashutosh P. Jadhav, MD, and colleagues ...

The following is a statement from Michael Fraser, Ph.D., chief executive officer at the Pennsylvania Medical Society, in response to Highmark’s recent decision to delay implementation of its Monitored ...

While anesthesia providers have only three modes to report to payers, one seems to cause a lot of confusion among professionals, according to a July 3 blog post from Rita Astani, president of ...

LUSEDRA (fospropofol disodium) 1,050mg/30mL injection by Eisai Eisai has made available Lusedra (fospropofol disodium injection), an intravenous water-soluble prodrug of the sedative-hypnotic agent ...

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Corporation of North America today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LUSEDRA(TM) (fospropofol disodium) ...

On January 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts implemented a policy that would have limited coverage of monitored anesthesia care for certain patients receiving colonoscopies and other ...

Doctors in California are raising the alarm over a recent policy change from Anthem that they say could harm patients undergoing cataract surgery. The policy categorizes monitored anesthesia care as ...

In its latest cost-saving policy, Anthem released clinical guidelines this month that will not require an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist to monitor anesthesia during cataract surgery. Critics ...

VANCOUVER, March 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - CRH Medical Corporation (TSX: CRH) (NYSE MKT: CRHM) (the "Company"), announces that it has completed an accretive transaction whereby CRH has acquired a 60% ...

Anthem wants eye surgeons to monitor anesthesia during cataract surgery. Surgeons say the policy jeopardizes patient safety. andresr Getty Images If you need cataract surgery, your eye surgeon may ...