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Our local practice in Nevada is 100% physician-owned, and U.S. Anesthesia Partners (USAP) physicians are the largest single shareholder group in the management company. Local clinical governance manages each practice. The physician owners in Nevada and other USAP practices choose their clinical governance board. The boards are in full control of the clinical operations of their respective practices in each state.

As seen in the Las Vegas Sun Guest column: Nevada can no longer afford to import its medical professionals from other states

By Exec Edge Editorial Staff | Tuesday April 28, 2026 Most patients never meet their anesthesiologist before surgery day. They sign a consent form, may ask a few questions in pre-op, and wake up in recovery with only a hazy memory of the clinician who kept them alive through the procedure. For decades, this has made anesthesia one of the hardest specialties in medicine to measure from the patient’s perspective and one of the easiest to overlook.USAP is the only national anesthesia provider to routinely measure patient satisfaction.

When Laurie Meginnis, CRNA (USAP-MD), was raising her children in Indiana in the 1990s, she juggled nursing classes while managing a household and watching her kids play volleyball. With her textbooks open on her lap in the bleachers, she wasn't just building a career. Without knowing it, she was also showing her daughter Kelly Lock, DNP, CRNA (USAP-MD), exactly what was possible.

Mules and Tightropes: Embracing Paradox Thinking in Anesthesiology

Parties File Joint Stay Request Asking Court to Pause Case While Settlement Details Are Finalized. DALLAS, TX. April 23, 2026 -- U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. (USAP) announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that, if finalized, would resolve the case brought by the FTC against USAP in Texas in September 2023.

By Exec Edge Editorial Staff:Few medical specialties have transformed as quietly — or as profoundly — as anesthesiology over the past quarter century. What was once largely confined to hospital operating rooms has moved into ambulatory surgery centers, physicians’ offices and outpatient facilities across the country. This move is driven by advances in drugs, monitoring technology and techniques that allow increasingly complex procedures to be performed on increasingly complex patients, who then go home the same day.

By Len Wright, as seen on Forbes.com Leading a nationwide company of locally governed professionals is complex. It requires balancing organizational priorities with local realities, fostering unity while respecting differences and leading with both decisiveness and flexibility. Our company is fueled by thousands of anesthesia clinicians caring for patients in hundreds of facilities across the country. Within this national framework, our business model empowers each practice to best meet the needs of the local patients, clinicians and facilities we serve.

On the morning of March 20, medical students at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine gathered with their families in a room buzzing with nervous energy. At noon Eastern time, along with tens of thousands of peers at medical schools across the country, they tore open envelopes to learn where they would spend the next three to seven years of their lives — and, in many cases, build their entire careers.Dr. Ryan Hafen, anesthesiologist at U.S. Anesthesia Partners’ Nevada practice in Las Vegas and program director for HCA Sunrise Health’s anesthesiology residency.

By Ronak Desai | February 04, 2026With winter here, hospitals across the country are experiencing the annual surge in elective surgeries.Everyone considering a procedure during this busy season should have a surgery pre-op checklist. This is especially true for seniors, and particularly when it comes to anesthesia. While age is often seen as the main concern for older patients and anesthesia, frailty is the real game-changer.What is frailty, and how is it measured?