East Carolina Anesthesia Associates

What East Carolina Anesthesia Associates does

East Carolina Anesthesia Associates (ECAA) is a physician-owned and physician-run anesthesiology practice founded in 1974, headquartered in Greenville, North Carolina, with a registered presence in Cary, NC. The company delivers professional anesthesia services across more than 50 locations in North Carolina and Southeast Virginia, serving acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician offices. Its core offering is anesthesia staffing and OR management for partner facilities, supplemented by an interventional pain management sub-brand, ECPC Pain Specialists, that provides procedural pain care.

ECAA's go-to-market is enterprise B2B: it contracts directly with health systems and surgery centers to embed its anesthesiologists and CRNAs into their operating environments. Named partners include WakeMed, ECU Health (with expansion into Roanoke-Chowan, Bertie, and Duplin facilities), CaroMont Regional Medical Center, UNC Health Rex, UNC Health Caldwell, Frye Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, Sentara, and multiple specialty surgery centers. In October 2023, ECAA won the WakeMed inpatient anesthesia contract, replacing American Anesthesiology, signaling competitive displacement of a national incumbent.

Revenue is generated through professional services billing for anesthesia and pain management procedures across the partner facility footprint; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The practice is privately held by its physicians with no disclosed private equity or venture capital backing, and its leadership includes Chief Managing Partners for Operations and Clinical Services, a Chief Administrative Officer, a Chief of Finance, and dedicated HR and recruitment leadership supporting multi-site scaling.

Name

East Carolina Anesthesia Associates

Legal name

East Carolina Anesthesia Associates

Website

https://ecaa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

East Carolina Anesthesia Associates is a physician-owned anesthesiology practice providing professional anesthesia services and interventional pain management across more than 50 hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics in North Carolina and Southeast Virginia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Greenville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Anesthesia Services: Professional anesthesia services provided to hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics. Revenue generated through healthcare facility partnerships and direct patient care services.
2. Pain Management Services: Pain management services through ECPC Pain Specialists division, providing interventional pain procedures and treatments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

East Carolina Anesthesia Associates is a physician-owned anesthesiology practice that delivers professional anesthesia services to hospitals, surgery centers, and doctor's offices across more than 50 locations in North Carolina and Southeast Virginia. It complements these services with an interventional pain management division, ECPC Pain Specialists, which provides procedural pain care using state-of-the-art technology and multidisciplinary treatment strategies.

Product overview

East Carolina Anesthesia Associates (ECAA) operates as a physician-owned, comprehensive anesthesiology practice offering anesthesia services across over 50 locations in North Carolina and Southeast Virginia. The company provides two main offerings: ECAA Anesthesia Services for surgical and procedural anesthesia care at hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics, and ECPC Pain Specialists (a division of ECAA) for interventional pain management services using multidisciplinary treatment strategies. Corporate Solutions services target hospital and surgery center partnerships. The practice focuses on patient care, OR management, and staffing decisions, with services spanning general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and various anesthesiology subspecialties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ECPC Pain Specialists: Interventional pain management division providing scientifically proven procedural care using state-of-the-art technology to treat pain.

Products and services

• ECAA Anesthesia Services Physician-owned anesthesiology practice delivering professional general, regional, and sub-specialty anesthesia care to acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician office-based settings across North Carolina and Southeast Virginia.
• ECPC Pain Specialists Wholly owned interventional pain management division of ECAA that provides scientifically proven procedural care using state-of-the-art technology to treat pain before it progresses, integrating multidisciplinary treatment strategies that combine traditional and innovative approaches for pain control.
• Corporate Solutions Partnership offering for hospitals and surgery centers that delivers anesthesia services through collaborative relationships with community partners and acute care facilities, including OR management and staffing support.

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• WakeMedcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2023ECAA secured a new contract with WakeMed to provide professional anesthesia services for all surgeries and procedures performed at WakeMed's inpatient facilities. The contract took effect on October 1, 2023, replacing American Anesthesiology of.
• ECU HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerECAA's relationship with ECU Health is expanding into 3 new facilities: Roanoke-Chowan, Bertie, and Duplin.
• CaroMont Regional Medical CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia, NC.
• Carolina Center for Specialty SurgerycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Carolina Center for Specialty Surgery.
• Chesapeake Regional HealthcarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services including Virginia Beach Ambulatory Surgery Center.
• SentaracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Virginia Beach Ambulatory Surgery Center.
• Raleigh NeurosurgicalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Raleigh Neurosurgical surgery center.
• New Hope CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at The New Hope Center.
• UNC Health CaldwellcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at UNC Health Caldwell facilities.
• Frye Regional Medical CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Frye Regional Medical Center.
• Prime Surgical SuitescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Prime Surgical Suites.
• Charlotte Surgery Center Museum CampuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Charlotte Surgery Center Museum Campus.
• SCA Health Charlotte Surgery Center - WendovercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at SCA Health Charlotte Surgery Center - Wendover.
• UNC Health RexcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at UNC Health Rex healthcare facilities.
• Viewmont Surgery CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Viewmont Surgery Center.
• Wilmington SurgcarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Wilmington Surgcare.
• Associates in Plastic SurgerycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for anesthesia services at Associates in Plastic Surgery.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• US Anesthesia Partners: Large national, PE-backed anesthesiology group practice serving hospitals and ASCs across multiple states. Directly comparable to ECAA's core hospital-partnership model, but at much greater scale and with private equity capital behind it.
• Envision Physician Services: Large national physician group offering anesthesia and other specialty staffing to hospitals and ASCs. Provides similar partnership-based anesthesia delivery as ECAA but at national scale.
• TeamHealth: National physician-services organization providing anesthesia, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine. Competes for the same hospital anesthesia contracts as ECAA, with broader service lines and PE backing.
• North American Partners in Anesthesia: NAPA is one of the largest single-specialty anesthesia practices in the US, partnering with hospitals, ASCs, and office-based settings. Closely comparable business model to ECAA's anesthesia services franchise.
• Sheridan Healthcare (now Envision): Historically a leading physician-owned anesthesia and specialty services group, now part of Envision. Provides comparable anesthesia staffing partnerships with hospitals and surgery centers.

Direct peers

• American Anesthesiology: Previously held the WakeMed contract that ECAA won in 2023, making it a directly displaced incumbent with a comparable hospital anesthesia services offering in the same mid-Atlantic geography.
• Somnia Anesthesia: National anesthesia management group providing hospital-based and ASC anesthesia services via practice partnerships. Comparable model and target customer base to ECAA.
• Premier Anesthesia: Regional and national anesthesia management group that partners with hospitals and health systems to deliver anesthesia services. Closely aligned with ECAA's hospital-partnership GTM motion.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ecaaanesthesiaspecialists
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/eastcarolinaanesthesiaassociates
• Instagraminstagram.com/ecaa_anesthesiaspecialists

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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