Legal & Regulatory Issues

Francis B. Burch, Jr., has been named the new chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine, effective July 1, according to a hospital news release.

Payments Gateway and Trustwave have partnered to provide Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance validation solutions to its level 3 and level 4 merchants, according to a company news release.

Over the last two decades, anesthesiologists have aimed to achieve "low-dose" infusion epidurals, a combination of drugs that blocks pain during childbirth while leaving movement mostly unaffected, according to an L.A. Times report.

Suwarna Bhide-Deoskar, MD, has joined the anesthesiologist department at the Essentia Health 32nd Avenue campus in Fargo, according to a system news release.

California healthcare facilities are scrambling to find alternatives in the face of ongoing medication shortages, according to a Whittier Daily News report.

Thomas Wherry, MD, is medical director for Health Inventures and medical director for Total Anesthesia Solutions, and Cindy A. King RN, CPHQ, is director of clinical, quality and compliance for Health Inventures.

The maximum cumulative premium increases of 59 percent that Blue Shield of California announced in January turn out to be much higher — as high as 86.5 percent, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists and two other organizations expressed support for the FDA's research into the effects of anesthesia on young children, according to a letter sent to the agency Feb. 24.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced its support for new legislation which would grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the ability to take steps to help prevent drug shortages, including propofol.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), MD, an anesthesiologist-turned-politician who centered his campaign on a planned repeal of the healthcare law, has said he will forego the government-subsidized insurance coverage provided by Congress in favor of keeping his own private plan, according…