Other payors, however, accept CPT 45378 (colonoscopy diagnostic) with a diagnosis code of V76.51 (colon screening for malignant neoplasm). However, if a polyp or lesion is found and removed by snare ...
New guidelines introduce quality indicators like bowel preparation adequacy and sessile serrated lesion detection rates for colonoscopy. The adenoma detection rate (ADR) threshold increased from 30% ...
Medicare violated its own guidelines by paying for follow-up colonoscopies approximately three years earlier than recommended, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine and Bloomberg ...