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Avoid Colonoscopy Code If Colon Isn’t Addressed

Published on Wed Jan 27, 2021

Question: A patient who had a total colectomy and still had a rectal stump visited our office. Our gastroenterologist performed a flexible sigmoidoscopy with biopsy (with colonoscope). How should I code this procedure? Can this be billed as a flexible sigmoidoscopy since the patient only has a rectal stump? In another case, our GI performed a screening colonoscopy on a [...]
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