Here are 12 statistics on ambulatory surgery center and physician Medicare payments for gastroenterology/endoscopy procedures involving polypectomy, according to Boston Scientific’s 2014 Coding & ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The reason we have this talk is because we think of polypectomy as entailing higher risk, of course,” Thomas ...

Currently, patients taking anticoagulants to prevent stroke and blood clots are often recommended to stop these medications in order to perform colonoscopy with removal of polyps. However, ...

For nonpedunculated polyps measuring 3 mm or less, cold forceps polypectomy is noninferior to cold snare polypectomy and takes significantly less time, according to the results of the TINYPOLYP trial.

US endoscopists frequently stray from established best practices when removing colon polyps smaller than 1 cm, with fewer than 60% of procedures using the recommended cold snare technique, an analysis ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Rates of advanced colorectal neoplasia recurrence were 1 ...

This section describes efficacy outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see ...

Colonoscopy billing can be very complex, hinging on distinctions between screening and diagnostic intent. A single ICD-10 code, CPT selection or missing modifier can shift a procedure from fully ...