The rate of anesthesia use in screening colonoscopies has increased in both physicians’ offices and ambulatory surgery centers, according to a whitepaper released by Truven Health Analytics. The ...

A recent article in the New York Times explored the growing use of anesthesiologist-administered anesthesia during colonoscopy and its impact on the cost of colonoscopy procedures. Traditionally, ...

WORCESTER — The next time you need a colonoscopy, make sure you read the fine print if your health insurance coverage is with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The insurer changed its policy, ...

Detection of serrated polyps during colonoscopy improved significantly with the use of propofol-based versus conventional sedation, data from a large registry showed. The detection rate increased from ...

Mayor Adams and his team late Wednesday walked back a statement he made earlier in the day that he was under anesthesia last week, saying the mayor in fact had a colonoscopy over a month ago that ...

In patients undergoing colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, deeper sedation using the anesthetic drug propofol may improve detection of "serrated" polyps - a type of precancerous lesion that ...

When performing a colonoscopy, doctors send a small camera through the human large intestine to search for signs of cancer. Mayor Eric Adams and his press team sent reporters down an equally long, ...

This is a response to the recent article "GI Centers of the Future: Forecasting Colonoscopy Demand, Value-Added Services." My response is to Dr. Cohen's comments, in which he states that possible cost ...

Anesthesia adds risk and cost to the screening procedure, research shows, raising fresh questions about how providers weigh patient satisfaction against outcomes and profit. New findings on risks ...