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 & ...

Donna SanGiovanni, CPC, CASCC, CHI, a former member of AAPC’s National Advisory Board and a clinical practice specialist in the Department of Digestive Diseases at Yale University, recently discussed ...

The splenic flexure is a part of your colon, or your large intestine, where it bends near your spleen, an organ that mainly filters your blood. It's also the place where many blood vessels come ...

A recent study demonstrates that concurrent flexible sigmoidoscopy in conjunction with CT colonography (CTC) does not improve the diagnostic yield for left-sided colorectal neoplasia compared with CTC ...

How often should patients undergo screening colonoscopy if their initial exams revealed no polyps or only small distal hyperplastic polyps? Current guidelines recommend a 10-year interval, even though ...

Long term antibiotic use in early to mid life may be linked to a heightened risk of abnormal growths in the colon and rectum--known as polyps or colorectal adenomas -- which precede the development of ...

A search of hyperplastic polyps from the dates August 2007 to January 2008 was performed from the University of Utah surgical pathology files. At this time the term ‘hyperplastic polyp’ was used to ...