Will Colonoscopies Continue to Be Bread-and-Butter Procedures for Many Anesthesia Practices?

Will Colonoscopies Continue to Be Bread-and-Butter Procedures for Many Anesthesia Practices?: Declining Medicare payments to gastroenterologists in 2016, a forthcoming CMS assessment of whether anesthesia for screening colonoscopies is “potentially misvalued” and increasing acceptance of non-invasive methods of screening for colorectal cancer are reasons why anesthesia practices with a substantial volume of GI endoscopy services should consider carefully the role that these services play in their mid- to long-range planning.