The following article is written by Jen Cohrs CPC, CPMA, CGIC, member of AAPC. Colonoscopy coding is an art. There are many intricacies involved with the correct way to code a screening colonoscopy.

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 ...

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 ...

A recent study reported a smaller-than-expected benefit from screening colonoscopies. But the study has important caveats, gastroenterologists say, making it ripe for misinterpretation if that context ...

The recommended 10-year interval between screening colonoscopies may be safely extended to 15 years in adults with no family history of colorectal cancer (CRC) whose first colonoscopy is negative for ...