GI & Endoscopy

CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Paul Cadorette, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CEDC, COSC, CASCC, is director of education for mdStrategies. Q: If the doctor states in the…

Cindy Givens, executive director at Surgery Center at Tanasbourne in Hillsboro, Ore., discusses four steps ASCs can take to increase their number of screening colonoscopies.

Here is a list of statistics on the U.S. GI and endoscopic device market from Millennium Resource Group's report, US Markets for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Devices 2010.

Shaun Sweeney, vice president of sales and marketing for Cygnus Medical, which specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, operating room and sterile processing department, describes three of the most common mistakes that occur in GI/endoscopy-driven ASCs when…

Here are 10 tried-and-true strategies for building a successful GI/endoscopy-driven ASC.

A study conducted by researchers in Colorado revealed that women offered a female endoscopist were not more likely to undergo screening colonoscopies than those who were not offered this choice, according to a news release by the American Society of…

Allopurinol, an inexpensive anti-gout medication, may help stop the progression of colorectal adenomas, according to a news release by the American Association for Cancer Research.

CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.   When a surgeon dictates that a polyp was biopsied and cauterized at the same time, use CPT 45384 (colonoscopy with…

An article published in Gastroenterology points to the growing data associating serrated polyps and their size, number and histologic features to colorectal cancer and suggests revisions to polyp surveillance guidelines, according to the article's abstract.

Here is a list of 21 notable GI and endoscopy-driven ASCs.