Acolonoscopy at a doctor's office or private clinicis three times more likely to be incomplete thanone done in hospital, indicates a study of Ontario patientswho tookthe test that examines the large ...

The 2015 CPT manual redefines an incomplete colonoscopy as a “colonoscopy that does not evaluate the entire colon,” according to the American Gastroenterological Association. As a result, CMS is ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Yoqneam, Israel-based Given Imaging’s PillCam COLON for use for patients after an incomplete optical colonoscopy, according to a Given Imaging news ...

Colonoscopies can be an uncomfortable procedure for patients who may already be worried about what results will be found. When the results are inconclusive, a patient's options can be limited, causing ...

Medicare generally does not cover virtual colonoscopies. It may make exceptions when traditional colonoscopies cannot be completed due to specific medical reasons. Coverage for virtual colonoscopies ...

FDA clears video capsule endoscopy device The FDA has new modality to detect colon polyps in patients with incomplete optical colonoscopy in whom a complete evaluation of the colon is not technically ...

CTC (virtual colonoscopy) is a thin slice CT scan of the abdomen after adequate bowel preparation and colon insufflation in which data are reconstructed providing axial, multiplanar, and endoluminal ...

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of ...

Colonoscopist fatigue might influence the success of colonoscopy; however, this has not been investigated. This single-center retrospective study evaluated outpatient colonoscopies performed between ...