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David Shapiro

David Shapiro

David Shapiro, MD, CASC, is a Tallahassee-based anesthesiologist, ASC consultant/risk manager, and past president and current board member of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA).

Sep 27, 2026

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The first
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thing that comes out of people's mind is finances and the amount of money and the reimbursement that's being asked to be paid by facilities.
76:34
And it's occurred.
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Again, it's getting more pronounced for a lot of the reasons I said.
76:39
But again, back in the day, Anesthesia is really, to a large extent, and I am patting myself on the back, but really my fellow practitioners across the country, I mean, we really pioneered the ability to keep patients safe and comfortable with short-acting drugs and really do a better job.
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And in most instances, especially in most ASCs, especially when there were maybe only one or two, possibly one anesthesia practitioner, we really did the clinical, most of the clinical management of that facility.
77:11
So we work with the nurses.

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If you want to see my head explode, be with me on a

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