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The less you smoke before and after a surgical procedure, the lower the risk of #anesthesia-related complications. Let #surgery be your reason to quit. 🚭 Learn more about potential risks and how your anesthesiologist can help: ow.ly/hPsq50Xl1bA

#GreatAmericanSmokeout

Medical Associations Tell Anthem: Drop Legally Questionable Penalty on Clinicians Pushed Out of Network The American Society of Anesthesiologists, American College of Emergency Physicians, and American College of Radiology, spoke out against an Anthem plan to impose a 10% payment penalty on facility cla...

ASA, @acepnation.bsky.social and the American College of Radiology are urging Anthem to abandon a policy, set to take effect in January, that will impose a 10% payment penalty on facility claims involving out-of-network clinicians. Read more on how we’re taking action: www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

Medicare Policy Will Deny Coverage for Medically Necessary Treatments for Debilitating Pain and Potentially Increase Opioid Use, Misuse Millions of chronic pain patients may be forced to turn to opioids or less effective treatments for their conditions, at a time when the opioid epidemic continues to claim the lives of Americans at an...

A newly proposed Medicare policy aims to deny millions of chronic pain patients coverage and access to peripheral nerve blocks. ASA strongly denounces the policy and urges its reversal. Read more: www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

ASA President Dr. Patrick Giam shares details on ASA's ninth annual Doctors Back to School (DBTS) event, which provides underrepresented students an early exposure to careers in medicine. Members, learn more in this week's Monday Morning Outreach: community.asahq.org/mmo/10-27-25

“Health policy can happen to you or for you. Advocacy is the opportunity to make sure it happens for you,” declares ASA Chief Advocacy Officer Manuel Bonilla.

Learn about ASA’s work on behalf of its members and how to get involved.

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ASA President Dr. Patrick Giam assumed office today at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2025! Congratulations, Dr. Giam! www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

#ANES25 #anesthesiology #anesthesiologist

Not everyday you see a "BOO URNS" license plate. I enjoyed the chuckle this morning.

Participation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) will be mandatory for 700 hospitals starting January 6. Learn how to implement TEAM locally—and earn 1 CME—at our ANESTHESIOLOGY 2025 session on October 14: ow.ly/5vrI50X261S

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ASA Applauds California Court’s Decision Ensuring Accurate Use of ‘Doctor’ Title The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today applauds the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California’s decision that found California nurses with doctorate degrees do not have...

A big win for patients! The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California found California nurses with doctorate degrees do not have the right to call themselves doctors in health care settings. Learn more: www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

ASA Launches New Journal Anesthesiology Open The American Society of Anesthesiologists today announced the launch of Anesthesiology® Open, a new online, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Wolters Kluwer. Anesthesiology Open’s websit...

Just launched! “Anesthesiology Open broadens the opportunities for scientific exchange offered by our flagship publication. We’re excited this new journal will be led by Executive Editor Dr. Yandong Jiang,” said ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold. Submissions open: www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

UnitedHealthcare’s decision to cut payments for medically complex anesthesia care may threaten patient access to such care, especially in rural areas and in facilities with fewer financial resources. Help keep private insurers accountable: ow.ly/YUeM50WUy6v

ASA strongly opposes UnitedHealthcare's new policy to limit insurance payment for complex #anesthesia cases. This move devalues essential anesthesia care for our most vulnerable and high-risk patients. Help us keep private insurers accountable: ow.ly/nzJn50WUxKS

Every year, an “elite” admissions counseling service that advertises a high admission rate to Ivy League schools for its students sends me the same incorrect pie chart.

With CPMed Perioperative Medicine Highlights 2025, you can delve into the core elements of perioperative care as well as issues around concurrent diseases, aging patients, perioperative clinics, and more.

Advance quality and earn up to 10 CME credits: www.asahq.org/shop-asa/e02...

ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold shares his concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s decision to stop paying for physical status modifiers and qualifying circumstances codes effective October 1, 2025. Members, learn more in this week's MMO: community.asahq.org/mmo/7-7-25

ASA Requests Court Deny Change Healthcare's Request to Dismiss Negligence Claims The American Society of Anesthesiologists recently filed a motion requesting permission to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in the case against Change Healthcare. The brief supports t...

“That Change Healthcare can actually claim they have no responsibility to safeguard sensitive personal and medical information for billions of transactions simply defies reason,” said ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold in a release on ASA’s court brief. Learn more: www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

“Not implementing patient blood management (PBM) means ignoring burgeoning evidence, missing out on economic benefits, and ignoring the ethical imperative to treat blood as the organ system it is,” write Dr. Axel Hofmann and colleagues.

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Reusing anesthesia circuits presents an opportunity to curtail health care’s large carbon footprint. Gandhi et al. developed a novel survey instrument to assess international practice patterns and barriers to reusing breathing circuits: ow.ly/M8G550W7kR2

ASA Applauds Congressional Leadership in Demanding VA Maintain Safe Anesthesia Care for Veterans This week, U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D., (NC-03) and U.S. Rep. David Scott (GA-13) led a bipartisan letter to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins urging the department...

Thank you to U.S. Reps. Greg Murphy (NC-03) and David Scott (GA-13) for leading the charge on a bipartisan letter to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, urging the department maintain physician-led, team-based anesthesia care for our nation’s Veterans. www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

ASA Encourages Voluntary Participation in the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM)

ASA this week submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on its FY 2026 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule. Read the full comments: www.asahq.org/advocacy-and...

Perioperative Care of Older Adults Scheduled for Inpatient Surgery This practice advisory provides evidence-based recommendations on management of older adults undergoing inpatient surgery. The advisory focuses on aspects of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoper...

@asahq.bsky.social just published a comprehensive webpage of materials, including its guideline and education, around its Practice Advisory for the Perioperative Care of Older Adults www.asahq.org/standards-an...

“While we should not abandon the intraoperative core of our specialty, the vision should be much broader, with integration of our specialty into the entire episode of care,” write Drs. Daniel Cole, Robert Whittington, and Stacie Deiner.

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Great to see Dr. Emily Methangkool on Everybody's Live with John Mulaney last night. Even better that he asked my favorite work-related question, "So how does anesthesia work?"

Guidelines and Advisories: Perioperative Care of Older Adults Guidelines and Advisories: Perioperative Care of Older Adults

Very happy to see ASA (@asahq.bsky.social) publish an education module (www.asahq.org/shop-asa/E02...) on our Older Adult Practice Advisory. This is the first of a series of activities that will offer anesthesiologists several best practices for implementing the advisory.

As programs face cuts, the U. wants a new ‘medical humanities’ degree they say could help train better doctors The University of Utah is looking at a degree that would focus on bioethics, art and literature as tools to train empathetic caregivers. Called "medical humanities," it would be the first of its kind ...

"Two professors at the U. are pushing for the school to launch a bachelor’s degree called “medical humanities,” where students who want to go to into the medical field will study the classics...with the intention of making them better, more holistic health care providers." bit.ly/3BTzcxt

Program - AHA Programs At the annual meeting, historians explore new approaches to research, teaching, public engagement, professional development, and more. Explore the schedule and plan your meeting experience us...

The program for #AHA25 is available to browse! This year’s annual meeting will feature nearly 550 sessions and events—an all-time record. Join us in New York on January 3-6, 2025. 🗃️

I'm sorry I can't make it to the American Historical Association 2025 Annual Meeting and participate in the Career Contacts session. I attended the 2023 Philadelphia meeting and appreciated meeting attendees looking to expand their careers and influence outside of academia.

Until I signed up with Bsky today and began searching for people to follow, I never realized how many people I followed on Twitter just stopped posting two or three years ago. Upon reflection, I have absolutely no clue what I’ve been scrolling through for the last two or three years.