The Chicago health care consultant contacted his physician at Northwestern Medicine, who referred him for a diagnostic colonoscopy, at least partly because Contos, 45, has a family history of ...

The recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer was lowered in 2021 from 50 to 45 for people of average risk.

Some payors accept the HCPCS code G0121 (screening colonoscopy for average risk), initially only used by Medicare but now more widespread among commercial payors. Other payors, however, accept CPT ...

Benjamin Richter et al, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adherence to diagnostic colonoscopy after a positive non-invasive screening test for colorectal cancer in two Indiana healthcare systems ...

The other half: lowering out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic colonoscopies, a procedure that can often cost around $1,400, which she described as “the bigger barrier.” ...

For my patient, both the diagnostic colonoscopy ordered urgently in a clinic visit and her routine surveillance colonoscopy would require prior authorization. At the very least, ...

I had a symptom of colon cancer and family history, so I got a colonoscopy. It was expensive, and insurance was a nightmare, ...

Some payors accept the HCPCS code G0121 (screening colonoscopy for average risk), initially only used by Medicare but now more widespread among commercial payors. Other payors, however, accept CPT ...

He went in for a colonoscopy. His Chicago hospital charged $19,000 for two. A man in Chicago with a troubling symptom underwent a common procedure at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.