insurance
Proposed Bill Would Bar Insurance Companies From Setting Time Limits on Anesthesia Care
Congress is considering a bill that would ban insurance companies from setting such limits on anesthesia care.
DECEMBER 11, 2024
ASA Opposes Anthem’s New Time Limit on Anesthesia Care
The ASA has spoken out against Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s recent decision to impose a time limit on ...
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Post-Arthroplasty Outcomes Diverge Based on Insurance
New York—A pair of studies has confirmed the disturbing results of previous research: When it comes to ...
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
CABG Patients’ Outcomes Diverge Based on Insurance Status
Orlando, Fla.—There are disproportionately higher rates of in-hospital mortality, postoperative complications ...
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Insurance Status Predicts Perioperative Risk in Total Hip Replacement
San Francisco—Retrospective analyses of total hip replacement (THR) surgeries in California, Florida and New ...
AUGUST 17, 2017
Taking a Byte Out of My Practice
The reports of my disappearance from insurance company databases have been greatly exaggerated, to misquote Mark ...
JULY 25, 2017
AQI: Value Measures You Should Be Reporting
The transition to paying for value in health care is happening whether anesthesiologists like it or not, according ...
APRIL 20, 2017
Out-of-Network Billing: ‘Surprise Billing’ Or ‘Surprise Gaps in Insurance Coverage’?
This is a familiar story: A patient with health insurance has an accident and seeks care at a hospital. She ...
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
EHRs Flawed, But Can Still Boost Health Outcomes
Health systems, pharmaceutical companies and health insurance plans have several innovative options for using ...
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Multi-Society Pain Workgroup: Washington State’s Spinal Injections Coverage ‘a Win for Back Pain Patients’
The Multi-Society Pain Workgroup commended the Washington State Health Care Authority’s Health Technology ...
JULY 4, 2016
Does the Perioperative Surgical Home Model Affect Malpractice Coverage?
Do the increased responsibilities inherent in the perioperative surgical home model mean that anesthesiologists are ...
JUNE 15, 2016
Peekaboo, IC(D-10) You
By describing the atom as the indivisible unit of matter in 440 B.C., Democritus of Mellitus was way ahead of his ...
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
