Medicare generally covers an endoscopy when a healthcare professional deems it medically necessary to help diagnose or treat various health conditions. After meeting the annual deductible, Medicare ...

Q: What are some of the recent regulatory demands gastroenterologists, their practices and ASCs have seen over the past year? How has this affected the management of these entities?Barry Tanner: Most ...

Hospitals suffer high costs from just a few common surgical procedures. However, intraoperative endoscopy (IOE) may help hospitals decrease these costs and complications. During an Olympus Corporation ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has opened an ambulatory endoscopy center in Ogden, Utah. Intermountain Health Gastroenterology Center aims to reduce the cost of endoscopy procedures ...

Compared with endoscopy, the Baveno VI criteria present a noninvasive and cost-effective method to detect high-risk varices in patients with Child-Pugh A cirrhosis, according to new research. Although ...