Pediatrix acquires Georgia Perioperative Consultants

The transaction is Pediatrix’s second anesthesia group practice acquisition and advances the company’s strategy of building a national group practice of anesthesia services to parallel its neonatal, maternal fetal, pediatric cardiology and pediatric intensivist physician services.

Georgia Perioperative will be integrated into American Anesthesiology, a division of Pediatrix, which will apply Pediatrix’s core competency of managing the numerous administrative functions of hospital-based physician groups to anesthesia practices, allowing anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants more time to provide patient care.

Pediatrix’s first anesthesia acquisition, Fairfax Anesthesiology Associates, based in northern Virginia, was completed in September 2007.