You Be the Coder:
Understand These Medicare Colonoscopy Criteria
Published on Wed Oct 16, 2019
Question: What documentation do we have to provide for a Medicare patient to justify a screening colonoscopy? Codify Subscriber Answer: The key to determining patient eligibility for a screening colonoscopy lies in your ability to demonstrate whether the patient is at a high risk for developing colorectal cancer or not. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “Medicare [...]
