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 ...

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For more than 20 years, American adults have been told to get colonoscopies beginning in middle age to prevent colon cancer. But evidence supporting colonoscopy has never met the "gold standard" for ...

To reduce the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC), many countries like Germany support a policy of two screening colonoscopies 10 years apart. A new modelling study from Germany indicates that, holding ...