Medicare promised a free colonoscopy, and she did everything right. Then the doctor found something, and the billing rules changed before she woke up from the sedation.

Among patients with high-risk malignant colorectal polyps, 19% had residual disease, with rates of 25% in the immediate surgery group vs 9% in the nonoperative management group. The rate of rectum and ...

Colorectal cancer often begins as silent, benign polyps within the colon. These growths, initially small and undetectable, ...

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 ...

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 ...

While colorectal cancer polyps often have no symptoms—especially in the early stages—there are some warning signs to be on ...

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 & ...

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