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Need some input please; If a patient comes in for a colonoscopy, non-Medicare, with a history of polyps (tubular adenomas)last colonoscopy over 10 years ago, is this an average risk colon screening or a surveillance colon? Is there any where that states if a patient has not had a colon in over x amount of years but has a history of polyps you can code this as an avg. risk colon, or once you have polyps no matter how long since your last colon it will always be a surveillance colon. Would appreciate anybody's thoughts on this.