preventive colonoscopy

  1. R

    Wiki Colonoscopy Screening - Medicare

    How would you code a colonoscopy screening for Medicare? Patient has personal hx of polyps and is coming in for surveillance. A coworker is telling me she codes as below. Do you agree? 45380 - PT Z12.11 Z86.010 K63.5 K57.30 PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: 1.History of colon polyps...
  2. J

    Wiki Preventive Screening Colonoscopy with Conscious Sedation going to deductible

    I have been seeing a lot of conscious sedation codes (G0500/99152/99153) on preventive screening colonoscopy's (G0121/45378, with Z12.11) that are going to the patients deductible. The colonoscopy itself is being paid at 100% but not the sedation codes. I'm not sure why this is, I have been...
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