Work arrangements

• 40% of CRNAs and ANs are employed by a single group
• 40% of CRNAS and ANs are employed by a single facility or hospital
• ANs spend more time performing general anesthesia
• CRNAs spend more of their time performing monitored anesthesia care (MAC)
• CRNAs are more likely to be employed by rural facilities

Reimbursement

• ANs work more hours and make twice as much as CRNAs
• Both ANs and CRNAs make more money in a rural setting

Regional Differences

• Western CRNAs are least likely to be employed by a group
• Western ANs are most likely to be employed by a group
• Northeastern ANs and CRNAs tend to work in larger facilities

Shortage/Surplus

• Greatest evidence for a shortage is in the Northeast and in urban areas
• Nationally, the anesthesia market is thought to be equilibrium, while states see mixed statuses
• 25 states show a shortage of ANs currently
• 19 states show a shortage of CRNAs currently
• In absolute numbers, Florida, Alabama and North Carolina exhibit the most shortage of ANs
• In absolute numbers, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida exhibit the greatest shortage, while Minnesota, North Carolina and California exhibit the most surplus of CRNAs.
• 2020 national projections exhibit a shortage of ANs and a surplus of CRNAs.  

Rand Health performed this study in 2010 for Ethicon. For copy right reasons I am providing my impression of  the most pertinent findings of the report and not a copy of the reoprt. If you would like a reprint fo the actual report you can request one at http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR688/

Read the entire story of Anesthesia Management aquisitions here.

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The high pay for anesthesiologist reflects inherent stress in a job that is literally about life and death. “anesthesiologist get patients safely and intact through operations while surgeons do things that would otherwise kill them,” says Roger Moore, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The big salaries are also a payback for the 12-plus years of training required before an anesthesiologist can start practicing. By Beth Braverman and Alexis Jeffries

#4 Nurse Anesthetist take home a median $157,000 salary annually.

Like the anesthesiologist to whom they report, nurse anesthetists get paid to never make a mistake. Anesthesia mortality rates have fallen from two deaths per 10,000 in the 1980s to 1 per 200,000 today. That means nurse anesthetists must be at the top of their game, even when working a 2 a.m. shift or staffing the ER on New Year’s Eve.

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