GI & Endoscopy

Anesthesiologists providing care for a Medicare patient undergoing a screening colonoscopy, will be able to collect 100 percent of the allowable amount from Medicare, beginning on Jan. 1, however, providers must identify the service as screening rather than diagnostic or…

Gastroenterologist Thomas Savides, MD, has been named the first Chief Experience Officer of the UC San Diego Health System.

Here are eight gastroenterologists who recently took on new leadership roles or received industry recognition.

Three researchers from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have won all the scientific achievement awards from the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America in the span of one year.

Coastal Gastroenterology Associates in Brick, N.J., has added gastroenterologist Scott Schlachter, DO, to its team, according to an Asbury Park Press report.

St. Matthias Charities has honored gastroenterologist Vijaypal Arya, MD, of Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to a Caribbean Life report.

Ashish Nimgaonkar, MBBS, MTech, MS, of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, has received the American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation's AGA-Boston Scientific Career Development Technology & Innovation Award, according to a News Medical report.

Qu Biologics added Remo Panaccione, MD, to its inflammatory bowel disease advisory team.

The role of physician extenders has been a subject of contention, but as demands on physicians' time grows so does acceptance of the support mid-level providers can lend. A practicing gastroenterologist explains how mid-level providers can be a boon to…

The gastroenterology practice of the future will little resemble the practices of a few years ago, or even today. Joel V. Brill, MD, AGAF, AGA, CPT Advisor; Dawn L. Francis, MD, AGA RUC Advisor and Shivan J. Mehta, MD, AGA,…