The Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee is applauding the removal of patient co-payments for screening colonoscopies in the health reform bill, according to a release from ASCAC.
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Patients with recurrent colon cancer in their liver experienced prolonged survival by nearly three years when liver metastases were treated using radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly in the tumor causing cancer cell death with minimal…
Signature Medical Group, one of the largest physician owned medical practices in the St. Louis area, has added Gateway Gastroenterology, an eight-physician GI practice with two locations in St. Louis, according to a Signature Medical news release.
An experimental vaccine against an abnormal protein found in some tumors has the potential to delay the onset of inflammatory bowel disease and in turn prevent progression to colon cancer, according to a study by researchers at the University of…
Barry Tanner, president and CEO of Physicians Endoscopy, believes ASCs will be net winners under the new health reform law. "We don't know how this new law will mature over the next 5-10 years, but I do believe that ASCs…
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Q: What are some of the recent regulatory demands gastroenterologists, their practices and ASCs have seen over the past year? How has this affected the management of these entities?Barry Tanner: Most of the regulatory demands relate predominately to ASCs, but…
The majority of African Americans are unaware they should receive colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 45, five years earlier than the generally recommended age, because of higher incidence and mortality rates among this group, according to a press release…
A recent study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida and published in the March issue of Gastroenterology has found that a new "virtual biopsy" colonoscopy probe, called the probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy, is more effective than virtual…
While many insurers provide coverage for screening colonoscopies, not all do. Akron, Ohio, gastroenterologist Costas Kefalas, MD, is leading a charge to change that, according to a story in the Akron Beacon Journal.
A study evaluating the use of a recommended withdrawal time of six minutes from the cecum in colonoscopy procedures supports this practice as a way to improve the detection of polyps, according to results reported in the April 2010 Journal…