How and Why The Business of Anesthesia is Changing: What’s Coming Down the Road and How to Prepare (1 Class A CE)

Virtually overnight the foundation of competitive advantage for anesthesia firms has been turned upside down by reimbursement headwinds, a stubborn and persistent supply/demand imbalance of anesthesia clinicians, and poor financial performance of hospitals and health systems. These conditions are pressurizing our clinical and business environment, and therefore, resulting in seismic shifts in anesthesia models and the rapid deterioration of financial performance of anesthesia groups large and small. During this session, we will share perspectives and insights into these market conditions and make predictions relative to the future state of the anesthesia business and practice model landscape of the future. More importantly, identifying the risks and opportunities these conditions will create for the practice of nurse anesthesiology.