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Archive > January, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 1

Anesthesia Alert

How Long Before You Subsidize Anesthesia?

Barry Cranfill

Faced with increasing costs, shrinking reimbursement and poor payor-mix ratios, more and more anesthesia providers are asking surgical facilities to subsidize them for the requested level of anesthesia service.

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