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  • Colonoscopy Costs—The Path Toward Meaningful Price Transparency
    Klaus Mergener, MD, PhD,
    MBA, reviews factors that can create marked differences in colonoscopy costs
    for patients, including tools and techniques used by clinicians and the
    geographic location of practices and hospitals. Also, we review programs that
    some clinicians are using to improve price transparency for this common
    procedure. Dr. Mergener is partner at Digestive Health Specialists in Tacoma,
    Washington, and affiliate professor of medicine at the University of Washington
    in Seattle, Washington.
    13 min
  • What’s New in GI Practice
    Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News editor
    Adam Marcus talks with Klaus Mergener, MD, PhD, MBA, and Thomas Deas, Jr., MD,
    about issues affecting the practice of gastroenterology and the upcoming GI
    Roundtable Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
    14 min
  • Role of Positive Practice Management During the Transition to ICD-10

    Kathleen Mueller, RN, CPC, CCS-P, CMSCS, PCS, CCC, reviews a selection of the overall changes gastroenterology and endoscopy practices will face when they transition from the 9th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) to the 10th revision (ICD-10) as well as strategies to provide effective practice management during the change. Kathleen Mueller is president and a coding consultant at AskMueller Consulting, LLC, in Lenzburg, Illinois.


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    This podcast is intended for US health care professionals only and is funded by Braintree Laboratories.

    16 min
  • Improving Quality Outcomes: Assessing Factors Related to Failed Colonoscopy

    Brooks D. Cash, MD, AGAF, FACG, FASGE,
    discusses the most prevalent causes and effects of incomplete or failed colonoscopy for gastroenterologists and endoscopists
    as well as patients. Factors related to failed colonoscopy, such as bowel preparation quality, and potential after effects
    including increased costs also are addressed. Dr. Cash is professor of medicine in the College of Medicine at the University
    of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama.


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    for US health care professionals only and is funded by Braintree Laboratories.

    12 min
  • Maximizing Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy: The Patient Component

    Lawrence B. Cohen, MD,
    FACG, FASGE, AGAF, discusses some of the many factors related to bowel
    preparation quality including the type of preparation used and patient risk
    factors associated with poor preparation. He also describes techniques that
    clinicians can implement to ensure patients are adequately prepared for the
    colonoscopy procedure. Dr. Cohen is clinical professor of medicine in the
    Division of Gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in
    New York City.


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    for US health care professionals only and is funded by Braintree Laboratories.

    11 min
  • The Clinician–Patient Relationship in Preparing for Colonoscopy
    Jack A. Di Palma, MD, FACG, discusses how the clinician–patient relationship may effect preparation for colonoscopy, describes techniques for improving patient preparation, and evaluates the efficacy of colonoscopy dosing strategies. Dr. Di Palma is professor and director of the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama.
     
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    10 min
  • Parameters That Define a Successful Colonoscopy
    David A. Johnson, MD, discusses defining a successful colonoscopy, standard-of-care guidelines, and how quality regulation may improve adenoma detection rate and cancer detection. Dr. Johnson is professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.
     
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    10 min
  • Colonoscopy Quality Improvement: Quality Indicators and Benchmarks
    Douglas K. Rex, MD, FACP, FACG,
    discusses how oversight of colonoscopy quality may affect endoscopists in the
    future as well as the effective assessment of the utility of colonoscopy as a
    cancer-screening tool.
     
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    16 min

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